Edward Norton Quotes

The more shaded, flawed characters that are struggling, I think there's something very relatable about that.

I'm a sucker for a screwed-up protagonist. We all have issues.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and they're prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate to them.

I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

My career had been split pretty evenly between good guys and bad guys until I finally grew into myself enough to play a decent antihero, where you can combine the two.

Whenever I have tried to make a character bad, they end up being good in some way.

I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

I think at this point in my life, I'd like to play more good guys than bad guys.

I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.

If you don't care for the villain, if you don't love him and hate him at the same time, then he's just boring.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. No good guys, no bad guys, just guys: that is, people bearing up in the crucible of their days and certainly not always - if ever - capable of articulating their condition.

I don't play bad guys. I think that's why I keep getting cast as bad guys: because I don't want to play bad guys. I want to play human beings that struggle with life.

The best characters to play are the ones who have deep internal conflict.

I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

The bad guys are not typical; they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

I play a nice crazy lady whose morals are right but who is really foundering.

I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.

I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.

I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.

As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting.

I enjoy played flawed men who are pushed to the limit, who make mistakes and then have to recover.

In my career, I've been lucky to do the bad guys that are more interesting, where the audience wants to spend more time with them and get to know them. That's what I'm always looking for and trying to do.

I think conflicted characters are always more interesting.